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Excellent, just clicked "Submit" on my Amazon order for that book ;) Thanks
much! :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Hougaard" <erik@hougaard.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: Programming Language Creation Books


> ----- Original Message -----
> I really need a decent book on the parsing -> code generation -> VM part
of
> it all, or at least some good resources on the net to read. Lua's style is
> fine, as is a register based VM setup. I am not out ot learn the way that
> EVERY language works, just why Lua works internally the way it does :) If
> there are any "Golden Books" of language creation (like The C++ Language
is
> a "Golden Book" for any C++ programmer, because its kind of a de factor
> standard book to own), I would like to pick them up :)
>
>
> The "Dragon Book" ISBN 0201100886 is *the* bible :-)
>
> /Erik
>